Arlene Smith obituary
Singer who formed one of the first ‘girl groups’, the Chantels, whose 1950s hit Maybe sold more than a million copiesAlmost before the five Bronx schoolgirls who called themselves the Chantels had finished their unaccompanied delivery of a song called The Plea in his office on Broadway one day in 1957, the record label owner George Goldner was fishing in his desk for a contract they could take home and show their parents. Within months the group were high in…
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